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tx-flood-imerg·dataset

Rainfall Totals from the 2025 Texas Flood

IMERG Total Precipitation - 2025 Texas Flood
hydrosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Total rainfall that fell over Texas from July 1 to 7, 2025, capturing the downpours from the remnants of Tropical Storm Barry that drove the flooding.

How it's made. Estimated from NASA's IMERG product, which blends satellite observations into global precipitation maps.

How & where you'd use it. Shows where the heaviest rain fell to help explain and respond to the flooding.

What's measured

floodimerg

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2025-07-07 → 2025-07-07
  • Spatial extent-106.7, 25.8, -93.5, 36.6
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Follow rainfall, floods and surface-water extent
  • Track soil moisture and the onset of drought
  • Monitor lakes, rivers and groundwater storage
Official description

Total accumulated precipitation from IMERG Final over July 1-7, 2025 to cover precipitation related to the remnants of Tropical Storm Barry in Texas.

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("tx-flood-imerg")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).